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A wickedly satirical send-up of all that's holy in the homogenised world of US family television, where the censor works harder than the producers. The fun starts when a major national network is taken over by an unknown group who makes outrageous and hilarious changes in the programme schedules. By censoring the censor, the new station launches a brand new style of family entertainment that depicts America as disgusting, dirty and decadent. This is too much for the president, who calls out the army in a desperate bid to restore law and order. But it's going to take more to squash this AMERICAN RASPBERRY...

Also known as [i]Prime Time, American Raspberry[/i] is
another sketch comedy along the lines of the horribly dated [i]Groove Tube[/i] and
the gloriously tasteless [i]Kentucky Fried Movie[/i]. It’s not a classic by any
means – there are some staggeringly racist moments (a spoof ad for Puerto Rican
airlines), some baffling misfires (a parody of [i]Charlie’s Angels[/i] featuring
a cast of obese actors should be funny, but it isn’t) and a heavy reliance on
bad taste and smut, but Prime Time still manages to rise above its
obviously skimpy budget to deliver a few solid politically incorrect laughs. The cast includes Murphy
Dunne ([i]the Blues Brothers[/i]), the splendidly named Kinky Friedman and a pre-[i]Spinal
Tap[/i] Harry Shearer.